Improvement in fertilizers



FUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JONAS INGMANSON, OF SYGAMORE, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN FERTILIZERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 21 1,238,1lated January 7, 1879,- application filed May 28, 1877.

To all whom it may concern.- a I am aware that mixtures of bone, lime, and

Be it known that I, JONAS INGMANSON, of acid have been used, wherein the proportions Sycamore, in the county of De Kalb'and State were substantially different from those herein of Illinois, have invented certain Iniproveset forth, and I therefore disclaim the mixture, ments in Fertilizers, of which the following is broadly, of said ingredients, as also mixtures a specification: of bibasic phosphate with lime; but,

My invention consists in a fertilizer com- Having thus described my invention, what posed of ingredients prepared and mixed in I claim as new, and wish to secure by Letters proportions as hereinafter described, and is Patent of the United States, is applicable as a general fertilizing compound. A fertilizer composed of the following in- In carrying out my invention I take bones gredients prepared and combined in substanand grind them to a meal, and such ground tially the manner and proportions herein bone I make the base of the compound, using specified-that is to say, ground bone, ninety ninety pounds of the ground bone. To this I pounds; caustic lime, ten pounds mixed toadd ten pounds of caustic lime, and mix the gether with five pounds of oil of vitriol diluted ground bone and lime well together. The dry by five gallons of water added thereto. mass thus formed is then moistened with a In testimony whereof I have hereunto submixture of water and oil of vitriol, five pounds scribed my name this 20th day of December, of the latter being added to five gallons of the in the year of our Lord 1876. former. The moist mass is then laid in a pile or heap, and the fertilizer is gradually pro- JONAS INGMANSON. duced by the chemical action attending the combination oi the different ingredients. Witnesses:

When the combustion or decomposition re- J. L. PRATT, sulting from the chemical heat evolved has F. 'l. JONES.

ceased the fertilizer is ready for use or sale. 

